--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > <snip> > > I really hope you're able to have such an experience someday, > > even though I suspect when it happens you'll run screaming > > out of the room within a few short hours. But even that running > > away will be better than sitting there clinging to the same old > > mindstates, the same old angers and hatreds, the same old argu- > > ments, and...well...the same old same old. Good luck finding > > someone who is patient enough to deal with your spiritual heel- > > dragging; I certainly am not. > > Judy, here is an example where Barry (aka Turq, Unc) *gets* you, > again. He feeds off your continued passion, what he refers to as > attachment, for things like answering a question according to agreed > upon parameters. You painstakingly researched the numerous times > when he hasn't held himself accountable here and the result was that > he laughed at you. He only exists from the reactions to his posts. > He neither feels responsible for what he says, nor accountable for > anything he may post. I'll say it again, its all a game to him. > > There is nothing to learn. Per his post above, he feels he is doing > you and any who disagree with him a service by supposedly blasting > us out of our old mind states, kind of like a one-trick pony. I read > the posts from 2000 on the other web site. This has been Barry's > schtick for years and years. The outrage he can cause by feeding off > of yours and others concern for various spiritual topics, or facts, > albeit somewhat ghoulishly, is not to be taken seriously. > > To feel what it is like to be Barry, it would be like one of us > visiting a site devoted to chess for example, and stating things > like, "the pawn is more powerful than the Queen", just for reaction > and effect. As long as people kept responding to our statements > because of the falsehoods they perceived in them, we win; we > continue to exist on the forum. We are then free to riff on others' > confoundment and call it anything we wish, spawning further > confoundment and by extension, our continued existence on the forum. > > For now this phenomenon fascinates me, because I am aware of its > simple genesis-- the ability by Barry to challenge anything said > here, with the result being he continues to exist. Unprincipled, > unnacountable, and meaningless perhaps, but in the spotlight. > > Once you take it seriously, he wins. He is not playing by the same > set of rules that you are. Its really a little bit childish, and > quite easy to decode once you see what his game is. He appears to > make it valid by the claim that anyone seeking accountability from > him is just not getting it, is angry, or caught up in boundaries. > > This, as a few seconds of reflection will show is utter foolishness. > And at first you may respond to the unfairness of it all. But that > is where Barry wins. To take him seriously, you automatically lose, > for it is only a fool's game he plays. > > So do you continue to play as his fool, or not to play at all? Your > choice, of course.
You remind me of Charley on "Lost." Whereas I remind me of a combination of Des and Hurley. See Jim...if you had broadened your horizons a bit and watched a little TV you'd actually get this. :-) Unc P.S. You forgot to say, "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz."
